
4. Menu-Driven Console Management -74
ROUTING TABLE COLUMNS
Column
Description
Network
The IP subnetwork address to which the switch can route
packets.
Mask
The related IP subnetwork mask to which the switch can
route packets.
Gateway
The IP address of the router at the next hop.
Metric
The number of hops needed between the switch and the
destination network.
VLAN
The VLAN within which the gateway or destination resides.
The IP route type for the IP subnetwork. There are six IP
route types:
Direct
A directly connected subnetwork.
Remote
A remote IP subnetwork or host address.
Myself
A switch IP address on a specific IP
subnetwork.
Bcast
A subnetwork broadcast address.
Mcast
An IP multicast address.
Type
Martian
An illegal IP address to be filtered.
Indicates one of the following:
Local
A manually configured routing entry.
NetMgmt
A routing entry set via SNMP.
ICMP
A routing entry obtained via ICMP redirect.
RIP
A routing entry learned via the RIP protocol.
Protocol
Other
A protocol other than one of the other four listed
above.